Learn from my mistake! I acted the same way, controlling my blood pressure naturally became my hobby. I learned how to relax and slow down my heart rate and expand my vessels.......for long enough to pass every FAA flight surgeon's exam with flying colors.
I owned several different cuffs and listening devices in order to get accurate readings, I timed exercise with readings just right in order to achieve the lowest numbers I could.
I lived as sodium free as possible, abstained from caffein and alcohol.
My cholesterol numbers always were excellent, and I only started on the BP meds when my personal physician and friend had to examine me on emergency one day in my forties and was shocked to learn of my "borderline" high BP. He said I had for sure been damaged by it after all these years, and my scan results confirmed it....despite great lipid studies I had coronary artery disease, possibly brought on by over 20 years of "borderline" hypertension.
Ultrasound studies of my heart also revealed structural damage.
My attitude of keeping things under control naturally screwed up my health!
It (diet and excercise) made me LOOK fit and healthy, but it was just that..a look.
I now take an ACE inhibitor for BP and am always 120/80 regardless of what I eat or drink, and I take a statin NOT for improvment in numbers (which it does, I have ridiculously excellent numbers now) but for a reduction in the chance of heart attack through it's other unknown mechanism.